David Metcalf
@dlmetcalf
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I shouldn't forget also having to pack my own ducted distributor fan and stand for doorways of unventilated meeting rooms booked for all day workshops. By "I got tired", I mean physically too, lugging it all on public transport (that itself has 3000ppm CO2 levels).
Likely mostly because we (NSW at least), had a very unseasonably warm and delayed start to 'winter'. We've had weeks that felt more like summer/spring and cold weather has only just started. So people only recently started closing up windows to run heaters, stay indoors and trap the viruses in.
Now would be a good time for biosecurity staff to read Airborne by @carlzimmer.com. Farms need more than just handwashing protocols.
Yes, pre-symptomatic (or oligosymptomatic) transmission is likely, which is why WHO are ignoring that too and are only recommending respirators on the ship while around symptomatic cases.
WHO's policy is to attempt spreading Hantavirus. They're not recommending airborne precautions in healthcare - not for suspected or confirmed cases.
Same hospital that had two patients die a month ago from a hospital acquired fungal infection due to mould outbreak. They'll tell you they need to build a new hospital (not even coming). Yet these are the windows that ED was built with in 1902. They sealed them up and didn't provided enough HVAC.
Exactly. Here's my visit to RPA Hospital ED this week. The largest teaching hospital in NSW. The extended section in red is triage & waiting room. No fresh air, no air purifiers, no UVC, no respirators (except mine), lots of symptomatic patients & large sign at the door warning of measles.
BTW, please let Mark Butler MP know that investing in research into post-acute sequelae of COVID is great (even though it's 6 years late), yet he continues completely ignoring the House of Reps Select Committee Inquiry recommendations to prevent infections first. www.health.gov.au/news/mrff-23...
Last I saw, Australia is meant to still be a party to the United Nations "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide", @albomp.bsky.social. This statement is grotesque, even in war. #auspol
What an absolutely stupid, self-defeating, and entirely FALSE economic conclusion. It's not just about TB. What do you think COVID, flu, pertussis, RSV, mycoplasma, rhinov, hMPV, paraflu, adenovirus, staph, strep, noro, echoviruses, SARS, measles etc cost societies from poor IAQ?! IAQ is cheap.
You thought you could simply destroy the IPC dept's shrine to Hygieia?! Maybe you forgot the Romans raized Jerusalem, slaughtered a million Jews, burned down the Second Temple & built the Colossium with its loot as a symbol of triumph. Because they refused the Emporer's statues of Greco-Roman gods.
Once you rename it Strait of America, the Iranians have to put down their weapons. It says so in the American Constitution. Anyway... I've found the problem. We didn't expect the Iranians to be salty about Hormuz, but apparently they have a "Big Salty Cave".
Putting human shields on military bases to maximise civilian casualties and outrage for PR effects, is all part of the IRGC, Hezbollah and Hamas standard operating procedure. It wasn't formerly a school. It was part of the base. Looks like outdated intelligence. www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...
This was how the protests started: www.theage.com.au/national/a-d... Sheikh Dadoun, 3 years Director of PR for Australian National Imams Council, hosting a street party for 7th October: "I'm smiling and I'm happy! I'm elated, it's a day of courage, it's a day of pride, it's a day of victory."
He was referring to his elation and pride at hearing of terrorists slaughtering 1,195 people incl at least 828 civilians, incl 36 kids, 71 foreign nationals, 250+ taken hostage to be dragged into tunnels (many by their hair), systemic mass rapes, etc. 7,000 participated in that one attack alone.
The girls school tragically hit in Iran was formerly the military base. Probably outdated intel or munition malfunction (2%+ for Tomahawks). Extremely unlikely intentionally targeted by US. It's sadly Iranian terror's modus operandi to deliberately use human shields to maximise casualties & outrage.
Also i24News: "11:54 PM A senior UAE defense official denies claims that the country attacked a desalination plant in Iran"
I was at RPAH yesterday for a clinical seminar. 16 ppl in a room on a clinical ward. Where the CO2 level hit >900 is where I stopped the seminar to ask for the door to be stoppered open and set up my own battery powered air purifier I'd carried in a backpack. CO2 would have reached 1700 otherwise.
Greens cracking a sad because their mate who firebombed the synagogue in Victoria in 2024 just ate a cruise missile, is hilarious.
Some of us have long memories of your tactics. Minns was an idiot to not lock you all up from the start.
They've sent Udaloy-class frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov (BPK543) and oiler Boris Butoma. 543 had a fire onboard that killed 2 seamen during an ex in Sea of Japan in 2008. This is her on fire again in Vladivostok in 2018, after her 2017 refit and before 2021 refit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0aI...
"triangle symbols"? Should I be reporting you to National Security Hotline for veiled threats? www.news.com.au/national/loc...
Atheist, agnostic, nothing in particular, none, & no religion, were grouped as religiously unaffiliated, making up 42% in that study. Singapore, for example, has a lot more religious diversity, but has massive internal security apparatus to handle it, mandatory military service for cohesion, etc.
So misogynist the we have one of the world's lowest gender inequality indexes. South Australia was the fourth state in the world to give women the vote and the first to give women the right to be elected to parliament. The rest followed soon after.
If you consider helping to fuel the rise of One Nation "astute". Most people don't want Herzog here, but they detest the disruptive protest party going on every weekend for years since October 7th (& starting within 24 hours of the terror attack), even more. Just move to the Middle East already.
Lady Florence Nightingale only mentioned fresh air ventilation 109 times in her "Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army" re Crimean War, presented by request to the British Secretary of War. It's nearly all she ever went on about!!
How did you fall so far away from someone like Sir John Pringle, Physician-General to His Majesty's Forces & 'Father of Military Medicine', in 1752 mentioning air quality 285 times in his "Observations on the diseases of the army", to where you are today?
Sir John Pringle, Physician-General to his Majesty's Forces, "Observations on the diseases of the army, in camp and garrison" (1752). Mentions the air 285 times. "the more fresh air we let into hospitals, the less danger there is of breeding this malignant distemper." archive.org/details/b305...
And with that, I've just put on a massive pot of Bak Kut Teh (松發肉骨茶) from my secret emergency stash. 😂 (And now I'll have no garlic left for anything else, but at least can dream of places with better govts...).
If you know the history of induced starvation and internment of Native Americas in Minnesota, mass fatalities at Pike Island, MN and the largest mass execution in U.S. history at Mankato, then even more so. Many of the Dakota who survived it ended up in Saskatchewan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjXw...